Many of the bracket fungi like Chicken of the Woods ( Laetiporus Sulphureus) and Beef Steak Fungus ( Fistulina Hepatica) are excellent edibles; others are too woody and tough to consider eating, but were used by early man as tinder and carried from site to site to start fires. Building upon Wild Food, of which a revised edition appeared in 2014, he produced in 2020 The Worldwide Forager, a vade-mecum for the self-sufficient. Much of his early work was photographing food but he also did record covers for Cream and Jack Bruce through his friendship with the psychedelic graphic designer and illustrator Alan Aldridge. He has learned a lot, too, from spending time with a Native American tribe, the Nez Perce, in Idaho, who retain some of the ancient knowledge of hunter-gatherers.

He is best known as an expert on mushrooms and roses who wrote more than forty books on gardening and wild plants and fungi; many with Martyn Rix.Commissioned by his friend the illustrator Alan Aldridge, he photographed the rock band Cream for the album Goodbye (1969), forming a friendship with the bassist Jack Bruce that led to Roger creating the images for Bruce’s albums Songs for a Tailor (1969) and Out of the Storm (1974). Once early man learned how to control fire, around 1 million years ago, he could cook and dry his food. While all mushrooms are beneficial to health, many have been used traditionally as medicine, especially in China and Japan.

Morels and St George’s Mushroom, which both fruit around St George’s day, 23 April, may last for as long as three weeks. Set to become the essential illustrated mycological encyclopedia for the next 25 years, this book is also clear, user friendly and will appeal to a wide range of readers. The culmination of over thirty years' work, Roger Phillips's authoritative and superbly illustrated reference work is packed with the most up-to-date information and original photographs.This 319 page (second edition) copy offers "the most comprehensive mushroom guide ever, with over 1,000 color photographs. That spirit has taken him all over the world – adventures in wild food that are celebrated in his latest book, The Worldwide Forager. Roger t In 1975 Roger Phillips began his life’s major work of photographing and publishing pictures of the World’s garden plants. Using modern photographic techniques, he set out to develop an encyclopedic collection of books to show the difference between plants as diverse as mosses, roses and annuals. A friend and fellow conspirator in cultural interventions was Brian Innes, whose band Roger booked for a school ball even before they became the Temperance Seven.

Packed full of photos and information, this mushroom encyclopaedia has fuelled my interest in fascinating fungi! His knowledge of the world’s gardens, both famous and obscure, was displayed in A Photographic Garden History (1995), written with his partner Nicky Foy, and in the two volumes of The Botanical Garden (2002), another collaboration with Rix. There are also colour photos of every mushroom along with the description, which makes identification more intuitive.

We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there? An ebullient figure often seen in distinctive red-rimmed glasses and matching jacket and beret, Phillips travelled all over the world in his quest for wild food and celebrated his odyssey in The Worldwide Forager (2020). He was also an Honorary Garden Manager at Eccleston Square in London, where he lived, [3] [6] and served as chair of the Society for the Protection of London Squares. Roger Phillips has written the best mushroom book I know: the sublime taxonomic accuracy of his descriptions and photographs, combined with an evangelical and infectious passion for the subject, will make an instant mycophile of anyone who picks it up.